What though your muse has nobly soar'd,

Is that our truth sublime?

Ours, hoary friend! is to prefer

Eternity to time:

Why close a life so justly fam'd

With such bold trash as this?[54]

This for renown? yes, such as makes

Obscurity a bliss:

Your trash, with mine, at open war,

Is obstinately bent,[55]